A Cold Cracking is a welding discontinuity or welding defect that occurs at temperatures below 200°C after solidification that is complete in welding or after cooling to ambient temperature, sometimes after a considerable time delay. The Cold Cracking is likely to occur in all ferritic and martensitic steels such as carbon steel, low alloy steel and high alloy steel unless adequate precautions, mainly preheating, are employed. (Also called as the HIC (Hydrogen Induced Cracking))
Related Definitions in the Project: The Metallurgy (Corrosion and Cracking)
